Montréal, McGill University - Rare Books and Special Collections - Manuscript Collection, MS Medieval 0086

Cantus Siglum

CDN-Mlr MS Medieval 0086

Holding Institution

Montréal, McGill University - Rare Books and Special Collections - Manuscript Collection (CDN-Mlr)

Manuscript/Print

Manuscript

Summary

Single page of a Kyriale, likely 17th c. Spanish or Mexican. 710 x 500 mm.

Liturgical Occasions

Mass ordinary "in dup. majoribus"

Description

From the McGill library description:

"Fragment of a 17th-century choir book likely written in Spain or Mexico.

Produced in Italy in the late 15th-century according to de Ricci.

Mass Ordinary chants on 5-line red staves with texts and neumes in black ink ; liturgical rubric in red.

Text decoration: each Kyrie iteration begins with a large initial K (the first in brown and blue (incorporating a facial profile), accompanied by a flower, all against a red panel background decorated with a gold filigree pattern ; the others ornately knotted in black ink) ; the Gloria begins with a large decorated initial G (incorporating a female figure in the curve) against a blue panel decorated with a gold filigree pattern and depictions of a snail, bird and strawberry plant."

Selected Bibliography

McGill library catalogue entry: https://mcgill.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1286376636

Full Texts Entered by

Martha Culshaw

Melodies Entered by

Martha Culshaw

Full/Partial Inventory

Full Inventory

Complete Source/Fragment

Fragment

Fragmentarium ID

F-dkla

DACT ID

D:0dkla